Seventeen Days to Kansas State --- 08/19/09

First off, Happy Birthday to UMass QB Kyle Havens! He turns 21 today.

Havens told a good story at the UMass Media Day yesterday. He's a California guy. When he left to report to UMass this January, he got on the airplane in San Francisco and it was 70 degrees. He gets off in New England and it's around zero----and he's wearing shorts and a tee shirt.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The UMass Athletic Dept website has a transcript of Coach Morris' replies to questions here. The site also has a image gallery.

The Boston Herald has a media day story here.

The Springfield Republican here.

The Worcester Telegram has an article about UMass LB Eric Dickson here.

The Hampshire Gazette has an article on the QB competition. Interesting that Kyle Havens has a redshirt year to give. I didn't know that. Matt Vautour also has a blog note about Havens.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Not much new information out of the event. Still no decision on QB. Coach Morris said he won't platoon QB's. He said we were strictly a pro-set offense, which seems to preclude having a QB run a series or two from the spread.

I only saw on player on crutches, so it looks like we're healthy so far.

Thanks to UMass SID Jason Yellin for allowing me to attend. Thanks to Josh Maurer for making a point of saying "Hi".

No report from practice. After waiting three hours, I was asked to leave as Coach Morris was closing the practice.

I'll have a image gallery up myself, probably this evening.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I-originally-started-blogging-about-Syracuse-because-of-the-UMass-connection-but-now-it's-getting-really-weird-dept. Another player quit the Orange yesterday.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This post on the Courant.com says UMass will play UConn at their stadium on 08/30/2012.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------